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I was in the market the other day and as usual I stopped by the magazine counter. As I was looking at all the gun mags on display, I got a really bad impression. Most of the magazine covers had something "tactical", either an AR, an AK, some pseudo swat member all decked out in the "tactical uniform" (camo clothing with ammo pouches, helmet, tactical shades, thigh length holster, bloused pants and boots). Many of the magazine titles were something like "Self Defense", " Concealed Carry", "Best Home Defense Weapons", "Ten Best AR15s" etc. If a person "on the fence" about gun control stood there looking at these magazine seeing nothing but how to shoot someone, (and out of the 10-12 magazines only two covers dealt with "sporting use" of guns), these magazines would push them over to full out anti-gun thinking.

I know that a lot of those magazines just want to sell to a specific group, but are we shooting ourselves in the foot?
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its been that way for awhile.

Probably 1% of people are into 'guns' in the general (non-tactical) way, and maybe another 4% are into them as hunters or police officers or something where they use guns, but don't necessarily have 'guns' as their hobby.

But there are supposedly 80 million 'gun owners' out there, so another 15% or so of the population may own guns, but they are not for a hobby they are passionate about, nor a utilitarian item needed for hunting or occupational use. Those people probably only own them for 'self-defense' (or 'tactical') purposes, so that means the magazines those people are interested are not going to be about 'historic Colts' or 'reloading' or 'benchrest shooting' or 'guns for turkey hunting' or 'WW-II collectibles' ----- they are going to be either directed to men (stereotyping here, but that is the name and game of marketing) who want Ninja-stuff, or women who want advice on concealed carry.
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Right now there is a 'Crat bill in Congress that would ban every single semi-automatic "anything" with a detachable mag... :roll: :roll: There's enough *&^$ing Rinos out there to make this problematic in that they will use the threat of a huge stick to get their desired stick.
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Last week I bought a "Handloader" magazine for a .44spl article, probably average one every one or two years. You are right about the covers, they look like adds for the killer games they play.
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I have to agree with the OP, I quit reading gun rags years ago when they became "all black gun, all day long". Even the American Rifleman now is mostly black gun and combat pistol krapp. :cry: :cry:
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You sure hit the nail on the head.
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Just picked up a gun magazine the other day called "Guns of the West" no black guns or tactical stuff in it at all.

Lots of interesting stuff in it.
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I personally find it very difficult to defend the sales/use of bump stocks, and tactical hand/long guns that, while not fully-automatic firearms (aka machine guns/pistols), look like a threat to most folks who spot them being carried/used/etc.

I do defend them, though, because I know that by definition & design, laws against them will also include many more sporting-looking autoloaders.

I was glad to have nothing to do with them personally, after I was discharged from the service in 1966 - I had my fill of them while "in".

The main problem I see with them is that their use by mature adults can sometimes empower military/tactical style wanna-be's, who don't really understand them beyond the fact that they go bang relatively fast.

I mean no disrespect to any here that enjoy them, just ask all to remember that if any one is "hanged" singularly, then eventually we shall all be hung together (Tks, Ben Franklin).


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I don't see a problem with these kinds of articles/covers at all and I'm a guy who has been stashing antique Winchesters, Marlins, 'Smiths and Colts, among others for over forty years.

There probably would not be 1/10 of the tactical articles or a need for them in gun magazines if we did not have so many
lawless subhuman Muslims and other trash roaming the cities/suburbs looking to carelessly take the life out of decent folk who work for a living or raising their family in a Christian manner.

The cops can't handle them all.....they leave it up the civilians to defend themselves, their families, and the possessions they tirelessly work for.

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At the large supermarket where I work, they moved the magazine rack to the front of the store. there are 22 registers and hundreds of shoppers walk by it every day. after the last shooting I couldn't help but think how tacky the rows of rags with black rifles on the cover looked. "We" aren't shooting ourselves in the foot, the idiots selling the magazines sure are....
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I'd guess that nothing has changed in the world of gun magazines. They do articles based on what sells magazines. It's easy to sell magazines with various black rifles and black handguns on the cover. Much tougher to sell magazines with vintage rifles and handguns on the cover.
Then there's the advertising end of the magazine industry. Advertisers are the same group that are pictured on the covers, so an AR15 decked out with all sorts of goodies gets more advertising dollars. The makers of these guns spend big money on advertising, as do the makers of accessories. Nobody wants to pay for advertising in a gun magazine that covers classic rifles or handguns.
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Ohhhh the shame.... the SHAME... I'm a gun-owner and I'm sooo despicable because I own a tool that some liberal know-nothing disapproves of...

Woe... Oh, WOE...

I cannot bring myself to even look at photographs of guns I don't own without feeling soiled... Nay... DIRTY. Just DIRTY.

IF only someone would come and take all these horrid instruments of death AWAYYYYY.

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Looks like the propaganda is working.
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FWiedner wrote: Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:45 pm Looks like the propaganda is working.
Not on everyone, you and I included...nor the NRA

These "assault" weapons have been available to the general public since the 1860's, starting with the Henry...through the Winchesters, FULL automatics (until 1934)......M-1 Garands and carbines..on and on. Why is all this pelosi happening NOW?

As a kid, most of my friends father's were WW2 vets and these guys had a M-1 carbine in the house somewhere. At deer camp every year these guys brought them up to play before opening day. The M-1 was my first gun I ever shot and IIRC I was about 6.

good thing these punks don't know what a pump shotgun loaded with #4 buckshot will do

The Muslim attacks in the last 30 years has forced our military to raid the sand-n----rs homeland and the result of this has exposed our young soldiers to covet the AR style much more than the V.N. vets. God bless these young soldiers because without them the only support for citizens with "assault" guns would be a bunch of old white guys, like most of us here and that will fade out in the next 20 years or so as we kick the bucket.

Good! I HOPE every gun magazine promotes these black guns as much as possible. The proliferation and popularity of black guns is a HUGE deterrent against criminally minded people (illegals, inner city thugs, liberal government, Muslims) from messing with the freedoms of decent folk while they are bypassing the fruits of THEIR labor which is causing the problems.....mass immigration of trash, the closing of mental hospitals, appeasing the lazy, poor parenting and about a million other reasons that the older generation of citizens never experienced when they were young.

Sissies give in and appease while the libs are out for blood. Let the chips fall where they may as I'm not paying for the mindless actions of others

Like the NRA says, "STAND AND FIGHT".....let's not turn into a Europe as a nation of pussies.---6
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It just goes to show you how important it is to get folks that are on the fence, out shooting or hunting. Show them responsible behavior with guns and how most Americans (or whomever) can enjoy the ownership and use of them. It's a lot bigger impact on a person when they participate rather than get talked to. I've taken Manny people to my club shoots and they see the fun involved with people that they would see in public not knowing their (shooters). Once you get them reeled in then they start to realise the importance of our 2nd amendment and what it means. Being in So. Cal it's double duty for me so I am proud (enabler).
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Sixgun wrote: Thu Mar 01, 2018 4:16 pm
FWiedner wrote: Thu Mar 01, 2018 1:45 pm Looks like the propaganda is working.
Not on everyone, you and I included...nor the NRA

These "assault" weapons have been available to the general public since the 1860's, starting with the Henry...through the Winchesters, FULL automatics (until 1934)......M-1 Garands and carbines..on and on. Why is all this pelosi happening NOW?

As a kid, most of my friends father's were WW2 vets and these guys had a M-1 carbine in the house somewhere. At deer camp every year these guys brought them up to play before opening day. The M-1 was my first gun I ever shot and IIRC I was about 6.

good thing these punks don't know what a pump shotgun loaded with #4 buckshot will do

The Muslim attacks in the last 30 years has forced our military to raid the sand-n----rs homeland and the result of this has exposed our young soldiers to covet the AR style much more than the V.N. vets. God bless these young soldiers because without them the only support for citizens with "assault" guns would be a bunch of old white guys, like most of us here and that will fade out in the next 20 years or so as we kick the bucket.

Good! I HOPE every gun magazine promotes these black guns as much as possible. The proliferation and popularity of black guns is a HUGE deterrent against criminally minded people (illegals, inner city thugs, liberal government, Muslims) from messing with the freedoms of decent folk while they are bypassing the fruits of THEIR labor which is causing the problems.....mass immigration of trash, the closing of mental hospitals, appeasing the lazy, poor parenting and about a million other reasons that the older generation of citizens never experienced when they were young.

Sissies give in and appease while the libs are out for blood. Let the chips fall where they may as I'm not paying for the mindless actions of others

Like the NRA says, "STAND AND FIGHT".....let's not turn into a Europe as a nation of pussies.---6
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m.wun wrote: Fri Mar 02, 2018 10:05 am It just goes to show you how important it is to get folks that are on the fence, out shooting or hunting. Show them responsible behavior with guns and how most Americans (or whomever) can enjoy the ownership and use of them. It's a lot bigger impact on a person when they participate rather than get talked to. I've taken Manny people to my club shoots and they see the fun involved with people that they would see in public not knowing their (shooters). Once you get them reeled in then they start to realise the importance of our 2nd amendment and what it means. Being in So. Cal it's double duty for me so I am proud (enabler).
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I don’t usually look at or read articles like the ones in question and usually wear blue jeans and flannel shirts. But am considering another AR or AK soon.
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I have three or four stripped lowers that I have been procrastinating building into complete EBRs. Ordered the lower parts kits a week back. Came today. No reason to delay any longer.
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If you wanna sell anything nowadays you just paint it black and call it tactical.
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I used to subscribe to a dozen different magazines at one time until I got AR/1911 burn out. I personally own several of both guns but just how much can be said about either that is fresh and not done a million times? Now I get Handloader,Rifle, the Fouling Shot and that is it.
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Even for those of us who own these "offensive" fun guns, it still gets old seeing the same old articles done over and over. I stopped buying any gun magazines simply because I got bored and didn't read most articles. But they didn't offend me, they simply bored me to death!
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Just a reminder, I just made an observation on the covers of most gun magazines in the magazine racks open to the public view. To a non-gun person (not necessarily anti-gun) they could get the impression that all gun folks run around in BDUs carrying an automatic rifle looking for someone to shoot...
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